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J Cole- Snow on Tha Bluff
- Niggas be thinkin' I'm deep, intelligent, fooled by my college degree
- My IQ is average, there's a young lady out there, she way smarter than me
- I scrolled through her timeline in these wild times, and I started to read
- She mad at these crackers, she mad at these capitalists, mad at these murder police
- She mad at my niggas, she mad at our ignorance, she wear her heart on her sleeve
- She mad at the celebrities, lowkey I be thinkin' she talkin' 'bout me
- Now I ain't no dummy to think I'm above criticism
- So when I see something that's valid, I listen
- But shit, it's something about the queen tone that's botherin' me
- She strike me as somebody blessed enough to grow up in conscious environment
- With parents that know 'bout the struggle for liberation and in turn they provide her with
- A perspective and awareness of the system and unfairness that afflicts 'em
- And the clearest understandin' of what we gotta do to get free
- And the frustration that fills her words seems to come from the fact that most people don't see
- Just 'cause you woke and I'm not, that shit ain't no reason to talk like you better than me
- How you gon' lead, when you attackin' the very same niggas that really do need the shit that you sayin'?
- Instead of conveyin' you holier, come help us get up to speed
- Shit, it's a reason it took like two hundred years for our ancestors just to get freed
- These shackles be lockin' the mental way more than the physical
- I look at freedom like trees, can't grow a forest like overnight
- Hit the ghetto and slowly start plantin' your seeds
- Fuck is the point of you preaching your message to those that already believe what you believe?
- I'm on some "Fuck a retweet," most people is sheep
- You got all the answers but how you gon' reach?
- If I could make one more suggestion respectfully
- I would say it's more effective to treat people like children
- Understandin' the time and love and patience that's needed to grow
- This change is inevitable, but ain't none of us seen this before
- Therefore, we just gotta learn everything as we go
- I struggle with thoughts on the daily
- Feel like a slave that somehow done saved enough coins to buy his way up outta slavery
- Thinkin' just maybe, in my pursuit to make life so much better for me and my babies
- I done betrayed the very same people that look at me like I'm some kind of a hero
- Because of the zeros that's next to the commas
- But look here, I promise I'm not who you think
- Ran into this nigga outside of the store yesterday
- He said something that had me like, "Wait"
- He was like, "Cole, 'preciate what you been doin', my nigga, that's real"
- But damn, why I feel faker than Snow on tha Bluff?
- Well, maybe 'cause deep down I know I ain't doin' enough
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